Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-02-10

Mackinac Island suffered its first heavy
fire for a great many years on the morn
ing OF the 3st ult. The buildings burned
were the Mackinac house, Carson house,
d. Murray's store, ;; highstone's store
Preston's saloon and Truscott's saloon.
The loss will aggregate $4,000, with no In
surance. The inmates of the Mackinac
house barely escaped with their lives.
Says the Times of Port Huron: The cas-
ing at +. l.. Wells salt well on Water
street has been successfully put down. and
boring has been completed to depth or
j, 735 feet. The first salt was found at q
depth of | ,5S5 feet, the stratum being three
feet thick. Then came five feet OF shale,
underlaid by twenty feet or salt; then
twenty four feet OF lime rock; then forty
three feet or salt: then five feet more OF
lime rock; and finally fifty feet OF solid
salt rock, terminating at depth OF l,ISo
feet from the surface. The total thickness
of pure salt rock is thus shown TO be ITO
feet, which is more, we think, than at any
other point on the river. The two. SAT-
wells at st. Clair, we understand, have
but forty feet of salt rock. Gas was found,
in boring, at $50, S92 and !, go feet, coming
up with force enough TO throw water and
oil out of the mouth OF the well. 1t Is thus
shown that Port Huron has inexhauStable
salt rock beneath il, in thickness surpass-
ing that yet developed at any other point,
and in purity equal to the best. With
these advantages, and unequaled facilities
for shipments, it must become and remain
one of the great salt producing cities OF
the world.
Capt. VIM. Albertson of Pontiac q vet
eran of the late war, is dead.
James Kane a young man who had been
fishing out in the ice on Lake Superior,
has been lost. he was last seen some 20
miles from Marquette, and it is thought
he was carried into the lake on an ice
field. IL is feared he Is frozen to death,
as 1t was very cold.
Thos. White, one of the best known con-
ductors on the Michigan Central, died in
Marshall on the 3lst ult.
Bert Garfield, Chicago and Grand
Trunk brakeman fell fro'i his train while
between SCOTS a Climax, striking on
his head and fract"yins his skull. He laid
in the snow an hour before being discov-
cred and was then conveyed to his home
in Bait G Creek. he Is about % years OF
age, married, and has one child. He had
been on the road only one month. His
physicians say he cannot recover.
Sarah Mclean, a woman who, because
she has domiciled in the household of j. +.
Whiteman, prominent merchant tailor
of Jackson, has caused scandal and
rested by Officers Boyle and Winney and
lodged in Jail on charge of attempting
to poison Mrs. Whiteman.
Clinton needs and wants lumber yard.
The school seat factory at Battle Creek
Is in active operation.
A broom factory has been started in
Lyons.
Grindstone City wants a roller mill.
During the past year sl59.53 have been
collected in the Grand Rapids Catholic
diocese for the benefit of the holy child
hood and the money has been forwarded
by Vicar General Roche to Montreal.
10 MI 60 gtat oil l,a
works at Muskegon, which are owned by
the &. q w. M. railroad, and which have
been closed for the past year, will soon be
In operation again with full force of men.